(NaturalNews)
Mention the word "astrology" and skeptics go
into an epileptic fit. The idea that someone's
personality could be imprinted at birth
according to the position of the sun, moon and
planets has long been derided as "quackery" by
the so-called "scientific" community which
resists any notion based on holistic connections
between individuals and the cosmos.
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According to the conventional
view, your genes and your parenting determine
your personality, and the position of planet
Earth at the time of your
birth has nothing to do
with it.
Then again, conventional
scientists don't believe the position of the
moon has anything to do with
life on Earth, either.
They dismiss the wisdom that farmers have known
for ages -- that planting
seeds or transplanting
living plants in harmony with the moon cycles
results in higher crop
yields. Even the seeds inside humans are
strongly influenced by the moon, as menstruation
cycles and moon cycles are closely synchronized
(28 days, roughly).
Researchers
demonstrate scientific principle of
astrology
Skeptics
must be further bewildered by the new
research published in
Nature Neuroscience and conducted at
Vanderbilt University which
unintentionally provides scientific support for
the fundamental principle of astrology --
namely, that
the position of the planets at
your time of birth influences your
personality.
In this study, not only
did the birth month impact personality; it also
resulted in
measurable functional changes in the
brain.
This study, conducted on mice,
showed that mice born in the winter showed a
"consistent slowing" of their daytime activity.
They were also more susceptible to symptoms that
we might call "Seasonal Affective
Disorder."
The study was carried out by
Professor of Biological Sciences Douglas
McMahon, graduate student Chris Ciarleglio,
post-doctoral fellow Karen Gamble and two
additional undergraduate students, none of whom
believe in astrology, apparently. They do, of
course, believe in
science, which is why
all their study
findings have been
draped in the language of science even though
the findings are essentially supporting
principles of astrology.
"What is
particularly striking about our results is the
fact that the imprinting affects both the
animal's
behavior and the
cycling of the neurons in the master biological
clock in their brains," said Ciarleglio. This is
one of the core principles of astrology: That
the position of the planets at the time of your
birth (which might be called the "season" of
your birth) can actually result in changes in
your
brain physiology which
impact lifelong behavior.
Once again,
such an idea sounds preposterous to the
scientifically trained, unless of course they
discover it for themselves, at which point it's
all suddenly very "scientific." Instead of
calling it "astrology," they're now referring to
it as "seasonal biology."
How
to discredit real science
It
all reminds me of the discovery of
cold fusion in 1989
by Fleishmann and Pons, who were widely
ridiculed by the arrogant hot fusion researchers
who tried to destroy the credibility (and
careers) of cold fusion researchers (
http://www.naturalnews.com/025925_c...).
After the very idea of "cold fusion" was
attacked and demolished by these arrogant
scientists, it soon returned under a new name:
Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).
LENR has now been verified as
true by none other than the U.S. Navy -- along
with hundreds of other researchers around the
world (see link above). And yet, even today, the
conventional scientific
community still insists
cold fusion doesn't exist and cold fusion
researchers are frauds.
Just as there is
a solid scientific basis for LENR, there is a
scientific basis for astrology, too. The
relationship between the Earth, Moon and Sun
naturally alter light exposure, temperature,
gravitational pull and other conditions that may
be sensed by living organisms. To believe in
astrology, all that's really required is to
grasp the basic concepts of the
interrelationships between all living things.
Does the position of the sun or moon influence
life on Earth? Of course it does: Life as we
know it wouldn't even exist without the moon
tugging on Earth and preventing its rotational
axis from shifting around to the point where
radical changes in seasonal temperatures would
make life far more challenging. (The moon, in
other words, is one of the key "stabilizers" of
life on
planet Earth because it
tends to stabilize the seasons and keep the
Earth on a steady rotational plane.)
None
of this, of course, means that the position of
Saturn today is going to make you win the
lottery or find a new
love. That's the tabloid version of astrology,
not real astrology.
Don't
confuse tabloid astrology with real
astrology
Even
astronomy has its tabloid versions, too,
which are entirely non-scientific. For example,
every model of our solar system that I've ever
seen is a wildly inaccurate tabloid version of
reality, with planet sizes ridiculously
exaggerated and planet distances not depicted to
scale. These silly, non-scientific solar system
models imprint a kind of
solar system mythology into the
minds of schoolchildren and even school
teachers. Virtually no one outside the
communities of astrophysics and astronomy has
any real grasp of the enormity of not merely our
solar system, but of our galaxy and the space
between neighboring galaxies.
To show a
giant sun the size of a basketball, with a
depiction of the Earth as a marble-sized planet
three inches away is the astronomical equivalent
of a gimmicky horoscope claiming you're going to
win the lottery today because you were born
under the sign of Pisces. Both are fictions. And
both are an insult to real science.
In
fact, even the whole idea that an "electron" is
a piece of physical matter, made up of other
"particles" is an insult to real science. The
sobering truth of the matter is that "particle
physics" doesn't have much to do with actual
particles at all. It's all about energies that
might, on occasion, vibrate in just the right
way so that they momentarily appear to take on
the illusion of a particle as measured by our
observers -- observers who inevitably alter the
outcome of the entire experiment, by the way,
once again proving the interrelated
nature of things in our
universe, including observer and
experiment.
The horoscope predictions in
the Sunday paper -- as well as much of the
hilarious mythology found in the modern
description of an atom -- are both simplified,
comic-book versions of a larger truth -- the
truth that
we live in a holistic universe where every bit of physical matter, every bit of
energy and every
conscious mind impacts the rest of the universe
in subtle ways. There is no such thing as an
individual who is isolated from the cosmos,
because we are
of the cosmos and we exist
as the physical manifestations of energies that,
for our lifetimes, are momentarily organized as
beings.
We are made of star stuff, says
Carl Sagan. He he's right: We are not only made
of star stuff, we are influenced by that stuff,
too. And finally, modern science is beginning to
catch up to this greater truth that astrologers
have known since the dawn of human existence on
our tiny planet.
Learn more:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030698_astrology_scientific_basis.html#ixzz17uYRtJZ4
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